Oct 1, 2012

How to fix unreadable Eclipse tooltips in Ubuntu 12.04

[Originally posted on G+ on May 7th 2012]



So here is how you can fix the problem.
Install gnome-color-chooser:
sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser 



  1. Great! This helped me easily and quickly. :o)

  2. I followed this, choosing black text on yellow background. Then this caused my Firefox hover-over text to be an unreadable white on a yello background. Hmm not sure why.

    1. I am sorry for the issue, I did not experience this problem. My only suggestion is to try experimenting with other colours.

  3. Thank you - worked for Ubuntu 14.04 as well.

  4. Thanks! It worked very well.